Besides Ifrit, Shiva will have her appearance in FF XII Revenant Wings, too. comeBoth summons don't appear in FF XII. But Shivas appearance isn't all. In FF XII RW you can summon the whole shiva family! Darling Shiva, who's Shivas husband is a rank 3 summon and attacks with freezing ice magic. Shiva herself is a rank 3 summon to and attacks with the known attack Diamond Dust. And Baby Shiva is a rank 1 summon and atatcks with small ice magic. Pictures/scans to expect soon.

Hope its quite clear. I guess I'm not better than Google translation^^'

I'm glad that Shiva is making a comeback. Shiva is like, needed in FF. Well, not really, but she has been like one of the best things in FF, if you know what I mean. It's cool that Ifrit is also making a comeback. Classic summons are cool.

Something tells me they stole this idea of FF13. Summon families? Wasnt the first Shiva-family announced the twin-sisters that turn into motor cycles?!

Very unoriginal, stealing from FF13. XD

Or maybe it is because the director of both FFXII:RW and FFXIII is the same person, and he wants to spread his summon's concept into multiple different FF games. And that's not the only similarity between the two games so far, both also seem to focus on "sky worlds" (Pruvama, or whatever it is spelled, and Cocoon) and that's not even the firs time he does that (Bahamut Lagoon, his first game, also took place in a "sky world" very similar to the one seen for FFXII:RW's so far.) And after seeing the old-school airship's system flying through the world-sky map in a FFXII:RW trailer (instead of sea, there was clouds), I really hope he does the same with FFXIII. It looks much cooler and is more unique than flying in a "normal" world map.

I think RW will be a good representation of what we can expect for FFXIII - it will show to us what Toriyama is capable of.

I'm not keen on this summon family bussiness, the kids look stupid to me. A summons a summon! Not a family, i think sqaures lost their minds this time. What a stupid idea..........mind you its only my opinion.

Gah. Just decided to come back and have a look here and I browsed the whole slide show. I'm not happy with this "summon family" thing and I really don't like the art style. I hope this doesn't disappoint. I'd hate for Balthier to be involved in anything crappy. >_<